• @[email protected]
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    162 months ago

    It only initially released on Roku’s streaming service, but I think it’s available elsewhere now.

    It is NOT meant to be historically accurate, which makes it funnier IMO.

    • atocci
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      122 months ago

      I’d go so far as to call it a parody of other rock star documentaries 😉😉

      • @[email protected]
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        72 months ago

        Weird Al takes secular pop songs and makes them into wholesome parodies, for his movie he took his wholesome life and made it into a secular drama parody. Loved it and Daniel Radcliffe was perfectly cast.

    • @[email protected]M
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      72 months ago

      yea and there’s something about the way the film does it … unless you know going in you could almost be fooled into thinking it’s a serious and accurate biopic (at least for much of the film) … which was really fun to watch … because then there’d be some line or event which is clearly too ridiculous and it all lands but still the mostly serious tone is almost the punch line.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 months ago

        Exactly that. It’s like the movie is all rising action. It just keeps getting more ridiculous.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      52 months ago

      It is NOT meant to be historically accurate, which makes it funnier IMO.

      Probably the best stance when dealing with someone like Weird Al

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      22 months ago

      I thought that made it kinda pointless. I wanted to see Al’s actual story, and instead I got some weird 2 hour long SNL skit. There were some pretty good parts, like Another One Rides the Bus at the Hollywood party, but the shit with Pablo Escobar was just a waste of screentime IMO.

      • atocci
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        12 months ago

        The scene where they record My Bologna in the bathroom across the street was true to life, so there’s that.